News

A new report by NatCen for the UK Statistics Authority shows increasing support for ending pre-release access to statistics, with 71 per cent of the public thinking that official statistics should be made equally available to everybody at the same time.

Opinion

Following the troubled origins of the NHS's care.data project, Emmanuel Lazaridis advocates an alternative approach. His alternate proposal envisages a similar facility, but instead achieved through sampling the general population along with separate registries for rare conditions.

Significance

Critics of the betting machines found in bookmakers across the UK say they encourage problem gamblers. Now, five of the biggest bookies in Britain have opened up their data to show what gamblers are winning and losing when they play these machines.

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The College of Life and Environmental Sciences wishes to recruit a Research Fellow to join the IDEAL Project. IDEAL is a major, five-year longitudinal cohort study of 1,500 people with dementia and their family carers throughout the UK using mixed methods to examine how social and psychological capitals, assets and resources influence the possibility of living well with dementia and to identify changes that could result in improved well-being, life satisfaction and quality of life.

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